Chapter 182: Jiang Feng again

At midnight, the gate of the Shen family residence was hurriedly knocked on.

The knocking was very forceful and loud. Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing, who had not fallen asleep, immediately came out and rushed to the main gate.

Shen Xu, already dressed in her usual clothes, stood in front of the gate and opened it.

This uninvited guest in the night should be someone Shen Xu knew. He was saying something to Shen Xu, causing her to frown slightly.

“I understand; I will go immediately.” Shen Xu nodded to the visitor.

After delivering the message to Shen Xu, the visitor left as hurriedly as he had come.

“What happened?”

Xiu Qingcheng brought Meng Yingxing up from behind and asked Shen Xu out of goodwill.

Frowning, Shen Xu turned around at the sound. Seeing it was Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing, her brow relaxed slightly.

“Sorry, did I wake you two up?”

“The City Guard Army patrolling outside the city tonight received a report that demonic beasts injured people four miles away. I need to rush over to support now.” Shen Xu said, preparing to go out, and instructed Xiu Qingcheng and the other to rest early.

Hearing this, Xiu Qingcheng replied indifferently: “Four miles away? Even if you rush over, the people will be dead and the beast gone.”

“Eliminating demonic beasts is originally the duty of us spiritual cultivators. It will be faster if we take you there by sword.”

Meng Yingxing didn’t expect Xiu Qingcheng to be so active in wanting to eliminate demonic beasts this time; perhaps she wanted to repay Shen Xu’s kindness for letting them stay at her home?

“It’s just that the sword flight Xiu Qingcheng mentioned…”

Could it be that she wanted Shen Xu to stand on the Ting Tian Sword together with them?

Thinking of this, Meng Yingxing pursed his lips.

Or perhaps to confirm his thought, Xiu Qingcheng turned sideways and raised her hand. The Ting Tian Sword behind Meng Yingxing immediately flew out of its sheath, hovering horizontally in front of the three.

It was Shen Xu’s first time seeing the art of sword flight, and the light of amazement in her eyes was fully revealed.

Xiu Qingcheng was just about to greet Meng Yingxing and Shen Xu to get on the sword when she saw a hand reach out and grab the hilt of the Ting Tian Sword—

“Disciple, what are you doing?” Xiu Qingcheng looked at Meng Yingxing’s action of grabbing the sword with some confusion.

Meng Yingxing ignored Xiu Qingcheng’s question, simply using force to retract the Ting Tian Sword back into his scabbard, then shifted his gaze to Shen Xu.

Without a second word, he directly reached out and pulled out the sword at Shen Xu’s waist, imbued it with spiritual power, and used the art of sword flight to hover it in the position where the Ting Tian Sword was just now.

“Borrowing your sword for a use, Miss Shen Xu; presumably you won’t mind, right?”

Meng Yingxing didn’t look at Xiu Qingcheng, squinting his eyes to reveal a gentle fake smile at Shen Xu.

Shen Xu, like Xiu Qingcheng, didn’t react to what Meng Yingxing’s operation just now was about, but under Meng Yingxing’s outstanding smile and voice, even she was momentarily charmed, repeatedly saying she didn’t mind.

“Disciple, you—”

Xiu Qingcheng widened her eyes, wanting to lecture Meng Yingxing a bit, but was abruptly interrupted by him.

“Master, time is tight; let’s set off immediately.”

“Four miles; I can still manage that now.”

Meng Yingxing stepped onto the scabbard, then somewhat forcefully pulled Shen Xu and Xiu Qingcheng up by their wrists, making her stand in front of him.

Shen Xu saw both of them step on and also hurriedly scrambled on in a fluster.

“Eh, wait for me! I haven’t got on the sword yet!”

Once Shen Xu grabbed the corner of her clothes and stood firm, Meng Yingxing urged his spiritual power to fly by sword towards the location four miles away mentioned by Shen Xu.

The sword broke the long wind, very fast.

“Disciple, move back a bit; it’s so crowded.”

Xiu Qingcheng turned her face and said to Meng Yingxing behind her.

Xiu Qingcheng said this only because her disciple behind her was sticking very close to her, so close she could effortlessly feel his warm body temperature.

This distance… seemed a bit too close, close enough to make Xiu Qingcheng somewhat nervous.

“Master, I have no room to retreat.”

“You don’t want to push Miss Shen off, do you?”

Meng Yingxing’s voice was right behind, right by Xiu Qingcheng’s ear.

He did not communicate with Xiu Qingcheng in his mind.

The voice of the boy who had already grown up somewhat became even deeper and more enchanting. Just a few softly spoken words made Xiu Qingcheng unable to help stiffening her body.

“Don’t speak right by my ear—”

Xiu Qingcheng glared, still choosing to lecture this disciple, who had started rubbing around in certain places, in her mind for who knew how many times.

So although the sword body was enlarged a bit by the art of sword flight, with three people stepping on the sword now, it was indeed a bit crowded.

Then Xiu Qingcheng could only wrong herself a bit and squeeze in front of Meng Yingxing.

However, the actual situation was that Shen Xu had plenty of space in the back; she had no problem swaying her body and looking around.

“Explain, explain; what were you thinking just now?”

Xiu Qingcheng still couldn’t help wanting to know why Meng Yingxing put away the Ting Tian Sword and switched to Shen Xu’s sword for flight just now.

Meng Yingxing was silent for a long while before saying:

“Master, have you heard a saying? For a sword user, his sword is his friend, lover, wife… master and disciple?”

Thinking about it, Meng Yingxing still felt he should add the words ‘master and disciple’.

“…Never heard of it; you seem to have heard quite a lot of sayings.”

“So, I don’t want others to use the Ting Tian Sword.”

“Oh, I understand what you mean.”

Xiu Qingcheng indicated she understood.

“…At least while I’m still here, I only want me alone to be able to use the Ting Tian Sword.”

“Do you really understand, Master?”

Saying this, Xiu Qingcheng didn’t see the deep gaze of her disciple behind her.

Xiu Qingcheng was still nodding there.

“I understand, I understand. As a swordsman, the sword is there when the person is there! Worthy of being my disciple!”

“No, Master, you understand nothing.”

Meng Yingxing sighed in his heart, changed his mood, and concentrated on flying the sword.

Soon, the group arrived at the location Shen Xu mentioned.

Hong Chengliang, who was responsible for the night patrol today, and other City Guard soldiers had already arrived.

Shen Xu jumped off the sword and rushed towards Hong Chengliang in a hurry.

Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing got off the sword unhurriedly and looked towards Shen Xu’s direction.

Two men with pale and panicked faces were there; they should be the victims of this demonic beast incident, like the person on the ground.

But what Xiu Qingcheng cared about more was…

Standing beside Hong Chengliang was a young boy. If she remembered correctly, it should be that super genius she and Meng Yingxing met in the morning—Jiang Feng.

Meng Yingxing walked to the gathering crowd with Shen Xu’s sword, alongside Xiu Qingcheng.

“Miss Shen Xu, your sword.”

Meng Yingxing called out softly.

Before Shen Xu could react, she saw a flash of silver light in her eyes, and her sword was sheathed back into the scabbard at her waist by Meng Yingxing.

“Miss Shen Xu, as a sword user, you cannot forget your own sword.”

Xiu Qingcheng repeated the great principles she had just discussed with Meng Yingxing to Shen Xu.

Meng Yingxing sighed almost inaudibly.

He just said, Master understood nothing.

Hong Chengliang and the boy named Jiang Feng also noticed the arrival of Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing only then.

Xiu Qingcheng was not wearing a veil at this moment; it was also the first time Hong Chengliang and Jiang Feng saw her true face.

Like everyone seeing Xiu Qingcheng’s face for the first time, a moment of dazedness appeared on their faces.

“Master, you forgot to wear your veil.”

Meng Yingxing turned to block Xiu Qingcheng, took out the veil, and handed it to her; his face and tone were very calm during the process.

“If they see, they see; what can happen?”

Although Xiu Qingcheng thought this in her heart, as a good master who doted on her disciple, she naturally put the veil back on.

“Sorry for losing composure. I didn’t expect you two to follow along as well.”

Hong Chengliang reacted immediately, greeting Xiu Qingcheng and the other.

Jiang Feng, however, kept staring at Xiu Qingcheng, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

“Let’s talk about business.”

Meng Yingxing naturally noticed Jiang Feng’s completely undisguised gaze. His voice grew a bit heavier, instantly startling Jiang Feng awake.

Unknown why, clearly Meng Yingxing had never had any interactions with Jiang Feng, but meeting Jiang Feng twice in two days, he didn’t have a single good impression of him.

Like encountering a natural enemy.

“It’s these two. They intended to rush back to Yelan City, but unexpectedly ran into a demonic beast.”

Hong Chengliang pointed at the two victims beside him.

“One of them stayed behind to stall the demonic beast, while the other sought us out. After getting the news, we rushed over immediately.”

“It’s just that when we arrived, the demonic beast was already gone, and the one who stalled the demonic beast didn’t have any life-threatening danger.”

“Oh, this little Immortal Elder was also present at the time.”

Hong Chengliang pointed at Jiang Feng again.

“So, was it the little Immortal Elder who drove the demonic beast away?”

Shen Xu looked at Jiang Feng and made a judgment that everyone here would make.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Feng shook his head with trembling hands, his childish voice crisp: “Brothers and sisters, I indeed came sensing the demonic beast’s aura, but when I arrived, the demonic beast’s aura had already disappeared, leaving only this unconscious uncle.”

In other words… the demonic beast was not eliminated by Jiang Feng.

“Perhaps some passing spiritual cultivator casually finished it off.”

Xiu Qingcheng said indifferently.

This thought of hers wasn’t impossible; some spiritual cultivators did whatever they pleased, killing or saving as they wished.

Such spiritual cultivators were quite common in the spiritual cultivation world; Xiu Qingcheng, for instance, counted as half of this type of… sword.

After a while, the City Guard Army began to question Old Tao about the specific details at that time.

“Did you see what kind of demonic beast it was clearly?”

“It was too dark, didn’t see clearly… seemed quite skinny…”

During the questioning, someone reported to Hong Chengliang again, finding a tuft of gray fur.

Shen Xu and the others looked; this gray fur was exactly the same as the one from the morning.

“If nothing unexpected, it must be the work of that fox demon.”

Hong Chengliang frowned, temporarily concluding based on this clue and Old Tao’s statement.

Afterward, he asked Xiu Qingcheng, Meng Yingxing, and Jiang Feng to search the surrounding area to see if they could find any more traces of the demonic beast, and kill it if found.

Since the spiritual cultivators were here, let them help if they could; this was also for the safety of Yelan City.

None of the three refused.

It was just that Meng Yingxing wanted to know why this Jiang Feng was also following behind them enthusiastically when they were searching.

Especially since this brat talked immensely!

Pestering his master non-stop!

“Sister, sister, sister, I knew you looked very beautiful in the morning.”

“Is that so, thanks.”

“Sister, sister, I can’t feel your cultivation level; Sister, you must be very powerful, right?”

“So-so.”

“Sister, sister, do you think this was done by a fox demon?”

“Probably.”

Even though Xiu Qingcheng’s attitude couldn’t be counted as enthusiastic, Meng Yingxing still felt his temples throbbing non-stop.

He paused his steps, then passed directly between Xiu Qingcheng and Jiang Feng, forcibly separating the two.

Xiu Qingcheng saw her disciple’s face full of resentment.

Wondering what was wrong, was it because she was talking to this kid Jiang Feng?

As a result, Jiang Feng wasn’t annoyed by Meng Yingxing’s behavior either. He consciously switched to Xiu Qingcheng’s other side, staring at Xiu Qingcheng with a pair of big blinking eyes.

“Sister, sister, sister, you look so much like the sister I’ve seen in my dreams.”

Meng Yingxing: “?”

Stinky brat! Are you sick? Seeking death?